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This is Ask An Expert, where every weekday at 9:20am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields. Today: Gene-editing technology allows scientists to work with DNA in unprecedented ways, but there are larger scientific...

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called...

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

By Thao Vi - An Dien, Thanh Nien News | 09.23.2014
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 “We are startled by the sex ratios at birth in some communes in the Red River Delta, which...
By Zócalo Public Square, Zócalo Public Square | 09.23.2014

How can we prevent these technologies from falling into the wrong hands?

Synthetic biology has been called “genetic engineering...

By Mohit Kumar Jolly, The Conversation | 09.23.2014

Walter Gilbert won the Nobel Prize in 1980 in Chemistry for his contribution to sequence DNA, or “determination of base...

By Denis Grady and Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.22.2014
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Jennifer was 39 and perfectly healthy, but her grandmother had died young from breast cancer, so she decided...

By Lisa Ikemoto, The New York Times, Room for Debate | 09.22.2014
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Surrogacy forms the basis of a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States and globally. The top surrogacy...

By Glenna Picton, Baylor College of Medicine News | 09.22.2014
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As genetic sequencing technologies continue to evolve rapidly, becoming part of clinical care, there is a critical need...

By Miranda Ward, We Are Egg Donors | 09.22.2014
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Martene is a South African egg donor and a member of We Are Egg Donors. She is an active...

By Johanna Torres, The Costarican Times [Costa Rica] | 09.21.2014
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Andrea, a Costa Rican mother, stands in court before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C...